The Wall Street Journal – a News Corporation outlet – is again engaging in aggressive damage control for the Murdoch empire by attacking Wikileaks. WL Central addresses the mendacity. It appears that the Wall Street Journal – which publishes from News Corp’s Celanese Building headquarters in New York city – is suing for the title… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
In what is now a regular occurrence, a large media outlet published on Monday a calculated perception-management article on a figure centrally involved in the ongoing Wikileaks story. WL Central addresses the mendacity. New York Magazine‘s Steve Fishman profile on Bradley Manning was hyped for several months, and, as happened with Vanity Fair’s much anticipated… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
A recent article by Steve Fishman in New York Magazine trots out more salacious gossip about Bradley Manning’s sexuality, in what is now a sustained media campaign to discredit the military whistleblower. On foot of the Fishman article, WL Central examines the more insidious aspects of this trend. Bradley Manning’s sexuality is irrelevant. For anyone… [Read more…]
July 4, 2011
I wrote a letter to the Irish Independent about Kevin Myers’ deceptive and harmful reporting on the Ship To Gaza campaign. I don’t imagine it will be published, so here it is. His article, of course, falls from the fallacy tree and hits every branch on the way down, but you could spend a merry… [Read more…]
May 27, 2011
In the wake of Obama’s visit, the Irish government has abandoned its plans to discontinue U.S military stopovers in Shannon airport. The accepted narrative about President Obama’s “historic” visit to Ireland on Monday was that it was entirely symbolic, and more to do with seeking the Irish American vote in Obama’s reelection bid than with… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
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